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  1. Re:All this shows on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    "However I feel the Tea Party has Poisson the sole for electing a GEO presidential candidate."

    Almost correct. Actually, they just binomial the red snapper.

  2. Re:So what's the advantage? on Mazda Stops Production of the Last Rotary Engine Powered Car · · Score: 2

    Not a triangle but a Reuleaux triangle.
    Not inside a peanut but inside an epitrochoid.
    C'mon, don't those sound cooler than triangle and peanut?

  3. Re:Except that... on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 1

    any part that I might like... any part that I might like... any part that I might like....

    hmmm.

    Nope, I still hate it.

  4. Re:Remember the good old days? on Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera? · · Score: 1

    Who are you talking about? There's no one here with me.

  5. Re:Why not? on Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera? · · Score: 1

    Joking about Comic Sans is like writing about calligraphy.

  6. Re:And facebook has how many on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 1

    Maybe the number was just upside-down.

  7. Re:Difference to the boxer engine? on Looking Beyond Detroit For Engine Innovation · · Score: 2

    They are still used as backup generator engines at nuclear power plants and the submarine I was on had one. I ran it. It has to be reliable - that's why it's used in those applications. The one I ran was a 6 cylinder version of the 38 ND 8 1/8 (8 1/8" bore). http://www.fairbanksmorse.com/engines/engine_opposed_piston_model_38.php?return=stationary_power.php

  8. Re:Very depressing! on 2011 Nobel Prize In Physics · · Score: 1

    Big rip, huh?
    That sounds like something that a physicist/cosmologist who was also a surfer would come up with. What was that guy's name, Lisi?

  9. Re:It feels too heavy and old on Looking Back On a Year of LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    But your comment is that NOT EVERYONE likes the ribbon. This implies that some people DO like it.
    In any case, what he said was neither offtopic nor flamebait, at least it should not be flamebait, but for the fact that some people take software preferences way too personally.

  10. Re:Note to self... on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 1

    Well, there were the Divinyls ("I Touch Myself"), so organic chemical names have been used as names for bands before....

  11. Re:What we would like to know... on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    Depends...
    ba dum bump!

  12. Re:George Lucas on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    If he were like George Lucas, he'd give the Tribbles speaking parts, add some funny banter between the green chicks and Spock, and have it turn out that Kirk's father is a Romulan.

  13. Re:It's October-groundhog day on HTC Android Backdoor Leaks Private User Data · · Score: 1

    If Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow on Oct. 2nd we're stuck with another six weeks of summer?

  14. Re:Not Amazon! on Amazon In Talks With HP To Buy Palm · · Score: 1

    Order of the British Empire? They've knighted task-killing apps?

  15. Re:Question on Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music · · Score: 1

    ...modified to be more scientifically accurate, of course.

  16. Re:I have a question on Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music · · Score: 1

    In her time machine.

  17. Re:Holy crap! on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    I'm using it right now!

  18. Re:So Long Farewell ARGH Goodbye on Tevatron Has Come To the End of Its Run · · Score: 1

    Not before going to bed. Before escaping from the Nazis during their singing performance.
    I love it when the nuns pull the coil wire out of the Nazi's car so they can't start it and chase after the Von Trapp's car!

  19. Re:3 orders of magnitude better than the lump on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    Ha ha. Kg is the base unit, not grams. I know it's crazy, since it has a prefix, but that's just how it is.

  20. Re:The scientific mind is dangerous to a lawyer on Science Manual For US Judges · · Score: 1

    In the last section of the reference, on engineering, is a section devoted to the pitfalls of failing to adequately test a design. The example used is the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge. As an alumnus of the WSU (Washington State) College of Engineering, that warms my heart. I still remember sitting in lower level physics watching a film showing the effects of forced oscillation on that bridge, after which the prof pointed out that it was designed by engineers from the University of Washington, our cross-state rival.

  21. Re:People still use dd-wrt? on Teach Your Router New Tricks With DD-WRT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tomato?
    Not until they legalize marinara.

  22. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    No, they are not. I'm not required to operate a car or a motorcycle.

  23. Re:not my field.... on What You Eat Affects Your Genes · · Score: 1

    Yes, I admire your vast knowledge of nuclear physics. Do you feel better now?

  24. Re:Sodium Benzoate on What You Eat Affects Your Genes · · Score: 1

    K or Na does not matter. It's the benzoate (benzoic acid anion) that matters.

    I had read that ascorbic acid (vitamin C) could react with benzoate to make benzene, which is a known carcinogen.

  25. Re:Wait, rice is bad for you? on What You Eat Affects Your Genes · · Score: 1

    They're not trying to make a *case* for anything, I'd guess. They studied some phenomena and found some interesting heretofore unknown behavior and reported it.